The gangsters prepare their next move...

Spot on article. I hope Kim's conclusion is the correct one.
Axelrod is the smarmiest creep in a political world full of smarmy creeps. As Dennis Miller might say, his real job is as the lighting double for Snidely Whiplash.

This will be the dirtiest 4 weeks in campaign history. And it will also be the most corrupt election. Their last ace in the hole will be voter fraud.

FTA: By pummeling the president on the facts and the policy, Mr. Romney looked in control.

Correction: Romney was in control. The facts can do that

Obama campaign headquarters Thursday morning might have been interesting but Barack and Michelle's quarters Wednesday night might have been pretty interesting as well!

The Obama campaign believed its own hype, its own mantra, its own false narrative.

I do not think they have enough time to counter anything in a meaningful manner now; and I am extremely impressed with how disciplined and focused Team Romney is. Paul Ryan will mop the floors with Chia Pet Biden, and Romney will have to stay focused and upbeat and prepared -- which is a lot -- but not nearly as much as Obama has to do now.

The Chicago Mafia has already begun. Axelrod is the "hired killer" who has a long history in Chicago of mowing down the opposition with crooked means. I hope that the few who still haven't decided do not believe the tsunami of fraud that will be forthcoming. Hope Obama's gay days in Chicago will finally come out. Some say he is also on drugs with the Secret Service turning their backs. Remember the t.v. show, "What's your line?", Will the real Barak Obama please step out??

Millionaire Obama will accuse Romney of being a millionaire?
... Oooops. I guess Obama Lites aren't supposed to know that.

Romney has a failed record?
Romney's discredited ideas?
Romney, the flip-flopper?
Romney is devoid of honesty?
.... These character traits are straight from Obama's resume. Trying to drag Mitt down into Empty Suit's oozing slime will not work. Next, they will try to accuse Romney of incompetence for not being a rabble-rousing community organizer. THAT, it seems, is the best job description to qualify one for the presidency. Just ask those members of the Old Media who applauded to promote Empty Suit into the Oval Office.

The bullies cower.

Good column. Of course the Obama campaign will fight dirty; we've all known that for ages. Their reactions yesterday were just laughable, though. Not the real Mitt Romney? Please. The biggest laugh of all? The notion that Obama's too intelligent for the rest of us to understand. They've been pushing that a long time, too.

I , too, am really looking forward to the VP debate. I doubt there will be a need for rehearsing on the part of Paul Ryan. His strength is his convictions and the ability to convey them with ease ,class and clarity. On the other hand , Biden will eschew any preparation for an entirely different reason; he thinks he's the smartest man who ever lived. I expect fun and fireworks. (note to self- check popcorn inventory)

Barky discovers that either Mitt is lying....

....or everyone around Barky is lying to him and has been for years.

Best roll a few fat doobies and hit the links while they work it out.

"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?"

~ The Untouchables (1987)

So, the obama-criminal-enterprise can do worse than calling Mitt Romney a murderer, a felon, a tax cheat, a dog torturer? How much worse can they GET? I guess we should all be afraid and hide under the bed for what evil is coming in October? Not gonna happen. It's getting tiresome hearing about the "threats" of the great "chicago machine"! Are we supposed to fear a little adolph-wannabe like axelgrease? Don't think so. Let them bring it on and see what happens when it's over.

No one's character is more ripe as a target than Obama's.

On the Lou Dobbs show last night, I caught the beginning of the lies. Judith Miller, attempting to paint Romney as a liar, had her clock cleaned by Dobbs. Loved seeing that. And, even after Dobbs presented her with the facts, she still tried to scream over him that Romney lied. She was completely out of control.
BUT, cornered animals can be dangerous things.

The Secret Service has no control over how a POTUS chooses to self medicate. It is not in their brief. Their task is to protect the President from everything but himself or herself. There is a long history of absolutely atrocious behavior by Dimocratic Presidents, which include drugs, sex, and even murder by proxy.

'The Today Show' opened with a pic of Mitt, shocked words, big graphics - "Completely Wrong". Yeah, 47% crapola, the same 47% stuff Obama forgot to mention in the debate.

To even the playing field, the remaining debates will be Romney vs. a panel of 2000 old media criminals.

I tend to think the blowback will be much less than the hype. You listen to people "on the ground" in Chicago--people who have their finger on the pulse of the city, and what you hear is among the masses their is a huge weight of apathy towards Obama. People can walk or drive around displaying RR ads this time without any problems. Now in 2008, it was vicious, but now? No one's fighting mad. Nobody's ready to lynch anyone. No one cares about Obama--he is the rock star that was but is no longer.

Be prepared by all means, but beware the conspiracy theories!

Spot on!!

I'm from Chicago (trying to sell and get the h@ll out) and the demorats in Illinois are "going to the mattresses".....

My first look at the up/coming ballot is proof of Illinois' corruption....

On a two page ballot --- only a hand full of republicans. The state is OWNED by demorats...

God help US....

LZK

My guess is Romeny is squeaky clean so good luck diggin up dirt on him or Ryan.

IMO, they can't play those games on a national lever, too many people watching. As probably the least religious among you, I do believe we are witnessing divine intervention.

Thousands of Americans joined a concerted effort to pray for Governor Romney in this debate. Another one coming on the 16th.

What people are missing is Axelrod's clever PROJECTION onto Romney of Obama as Deceptor in Chief.
Or in other words, "Obama didn't show up? Obama lies? Yeah? Yeah? Well Romney has two sides too!"

Racist or liar? Racist or Liar? Let's put 'liar' out there for now and then hit him with 'racist' the last week of the campaign.

Didn't Sarah Palin say this the other day? But I actually kind of disagree. While the O campaign operation in Chicago will go on full attack mode, that doesn't have that much to do with Chicago politics. This is a one-party town. Democrats never go on the attack against Republicans because there are no Republican candidates to attack.

These won't be Chicago rules. These will be Putin rules. The press has already adopted them and now have no compunction about presenting lies as truth and keeping facts of failure by obi from ever being seen. At least with this debate the facts were seen on all channels. By the way Al, wasn't Romney in the same high altitude ? Maybe his brain just works better.

I tend to agree with the hype about dirty politics; no question the democrats would try, but ..... they have thrown a lot of dirt, controled the media, attempted to ram Obama down our throats; it's just not working.
sooner or later, the flim flam man is revealed.

Rahm may be unwilling to go along with Obama. There are those in Boystown with the goods on them both. I expect him to be very quiet.

First to make this warning was Mrs. Palin. You know, the "dumb chick." At any rate, Miss Strassel is right and so was Mrs. Palin; the ugliness is only going to get more ghastly.

3 words: Turbocharged race card.

Expect it!

#3,
Their last card might be NO election !!!!!

Remember that Obie has all those Exec orders signed, just needs a reason to use them !!!

I really expect him to pull a Chavez on us !!!

Romney didn’t get to where he is and what he has by being soft and weak. I think he has some major great white sharks (no racist pun intended) on his team. And they will be ready for the chum/choom.

Finally. Some truth out of the medias establishment.

I see my lefty friends using the "Romney lied his way through the debate" garbage based on Think Progress and other leftists hack articles. The mainstream media isn't actually going after Romney on that, though, are they? Why? Because anything the "fact checkers" are showing as "lies" is more disagreement. Obama can be shown to have actually lied.

It's not that the msm is getting honest. They are seeing that Romney's campaign and the right aren't going to sit still for the same kinds of lies they pulled off during the Bush admin.

Or, another possibility, is that they're saving their forked tongue reporting for whatever trick Obama has up his sleeve for the home stretch.

Last election when Sarah said,"I was a Mayor. A mayor is kind of like being a Community Organizer except you are accountable to others." The Obama camp went ballistic. Soon after that they went after her family and that whole can of worms opened up. Hopefully, Mitt's sons are prepared for the attack.

So far, this was the most enjoyable thing to happen in the Zero administration.

The second is that Facebook has an empty chair on their sign in page, today. They may not get the significance, but it did give me a secret chuckle of schadenfreude when I saw it.

This going to be a rout. I fully expect the deluge of slime to come pouring forth from Chicago, and Romney's family should be prepared to be hit by their "fair share" of it. Remember Letteman's dirty sex jokes about our gal Sarah's teenage daughter? The demons will be in full shriek. But it won't work, because it will be inconsistent with what people see and hear with their own eyes and ears on their TV's when Romney speaks during the debates. And what are they seeing?

Romney looks and sounds like the boss you always LIKED. Everyone has had one, maybe still do. He's the one you could count on to make a timely decision when you needed it to do your job. He'd listen to you, think about what you said, then send you back to work with a clear course to pursue. And he didn't just have your back if things got hinky, he'd step in front of you and own HIS decisions. You knew you could trust that guy. And you did. He was a leader, and he led from the FRONT.

And that's what people see on TV during the debates. The Obama campaign has no way to counter it, because all they have to sell is Obama. It's going to be a rout.

#39 Great point. Also, I always want to facepalm when Pravda ratchets up their lies daily. But - perhaps at each ratchet up they lose another thousand or so finally awakened and disgusted sheeple.

Get ready? What the heck has been going on for the last 6 years?

Chicago politics is the only way for Obama to win now.
The public relations media will of course provide all the assitance that they can but, the people are beginning to see that they have no clothes either. More and more people are seeing the lack of integrity and credibility in the propaganda media, that is why youb are starting to hear some minor complaints and small attacks on the administration. They will be back in the "Little Christie Matthews" drooling public relations efforts shortly.

The Chi-town demonrats better be careful. America has now seen how incompetent Fauxbama is. If they see (finally, finally) how ugly the people around him are and how dirty their politics are, that'll be the last coffin nail.

We watch and maybe now we are learning how the Chicago corruption team deals with candidates. In my small city watched an assistant mayor, from Chicago, get the Democrat mayor re-elected. She did a marvelous job of marginalizing the conservative woman which delighted the liberal women? Strange. The President and his media backers tried to marginalize Governor Romney (and lie) but in a face to face their efforts were rebuked. The more experienced in business, politics, family and a descent man, whether it be by church or just his upbringing prevailed. Now we must do our part and get people out to vote.

If they wish to play that game it is another Obama cannot win.

Started today with the huge surprise 7.8% unemployment! What a joke. Could it be any clearer that Obama will do any amount of "fixing" to overcome his dismal performance?

It's a given that now the Dims will bring up all the heavy artillery that have. They don't have anything else to use. And it's going to be very dirty and savage. I hope and pray that Romney and his entire staff are fully aware and prepared for what is coming. And I pray that Romney and his entire family are very devout, practicing Mormons and there is no hint of dirt on any of them. Because right now you cant bet the farm that there is as entire company of dirt diggers looking into the pasts of anyone ever associated with Romney. This is going to be the worst month of campaigning that I have ever witnessed.

First Volley "The Unemployment Report"? Does anyone believe 78%?

Did you see Drudge today ? ... unemployment down to 3% today or something like that, largest decrease in the history of the world in just one night ... and it only took Obozo getting hammered with the facts in just one debate... Obozo ordered accounting to "coook demmmm boooks !" yawn .. Chicago politics at its worst and was to be expected ..

Obama is desperate and ill equipped. Those pursed, angry lips want win much sympathy.

I hik he 7.8 figure and the racim and the capone stuff is going to back-fire.

Books cooked to come up with a sub-8% unemployment rate, the "No, you're the liar!" meme already in full swing, more dirty tricks at the ready. Ahhhh, Chicago!

Bottom line: either Romney or NerØbama is lying. It is the job of the voters to determine which one. Pray hard that they get it right.

Starting with the phony jobs report. Next he will need a phony foreign policy victory. His press will take over from there.

What do Wintour and Langoria gotta say?? That Americans were blind and could not see the designer clothes that Obama wore?

Fine article and ample warning from Strassel. I put absolutely nothing beyond Obama and his crew. And back on the stump we once again see Obama in full, the unconfronted Obama, the bully.

And now we have suspicious unemployment numbers a couple days after Obama's game changing, epic fail. And the next debate will be townhall style. What manner of questions and questioners do we expect in the audience?

This next debate is on foreign policy. And that won't take a rocket scientist to see it has failed.

I will continue beating my drum: We need conservative mainstream media! Not just to win these elections, but to explain to American people what leftist radicals are about!
I grew up in soviet union and I can assure you that propaganda works. It took the soviets ~70 years to get to the point where propaganda stopped working - after all the casualties, all the hardships, all the restrictions and putdowns... Everything was a problem: food, healthcare, housing, clothing, furniture, transportation, you name it. We saw rampant inequality between nomenclature bureaucrats and the rest of the country. EVERY store had back shelves to which only chosen ones had access. Nomenclature had their own hospitals, different set of medications (usually, manufactured in Switzerland or Germany), even bathroom hardware!
You see Greeks and Spaniards blaming the government for corruption - duh, what else is new? Power corrupts, absolute power.... you know the saying! And keep in mind one very important thing: the crooks vet their crews. How mafia is recruiting new members - through very arduous vetting process. You think America is different? No, biologically people are the same. The only restriction that keep us in check is exposure through the objective, conservative, commonsense media.

Acorn, pink pussyrats(black panthers), commies, wackos, treefornies, and dimfecals are what we are faced with.
Look for voter fraud and theft to be at an all time high thanks to the 0'blo-bower's stash.
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Just saw an Obama ad two seconds ago....confirmed everything said in this article. Calling Romney a liar. That's all they have.

Hey listen, Obie better get ready for the Romney rules. Mitt didn't get to where he is because he dont know how to win.

Aside from his Massachusetts experience with Dems, Mitt saw almost first hand how desperately the Dems operate when cornered...
He saw his good friend and former employee Meg Whitman who he was supporting get taken down in the Cali gubernatorial race with that nanny surprise wrought by despicable Dem operative Gloria Allred. So he knows full well what Dems are capable of when cornered or behind.
BTW, since that election, Hewlett-Packard chose Whitman as their new CEO. The nanny issue was obviously bogus right from the git go.

What did George W. Bush once say, "Bring It On"? Good normally trumps EVIL!!!

Indonesia edition: family pets will be eaten.